1. Successfully deploy Alchemix v3. 2. Grow TVL at least 5x. 3. Grow liquidity by at least 3x. 4. Get alUSD and alETH on major lending markets. 5. Deploy v3 on one more rollup. 6. Have 3 friendly forks of v3. 7. Get at least 3 DAOs to manage their treasury using v3. 8. Get the EF to notice us and think Alchemix is relevant enough to trial a regenerative treasury. 9. Get v3.1 into audit.
there was a fork in the future of the internet the exact day that youtube started paying creators for views. creativity died in favor of video essays on literally every mundane thing. twitter similarly started its precipitous decline the moment it paid out posters. Kaito and the like are now doing the same thing for token shilling.
It feels like all of us in crypto are on a hero’s journey, with us being precisely at the midpoint, the abyss. We feel a sense of doom bc along with adoption we are confronted by nihilism and the temptation to allow tradfi, the system we want to replace, to envelope us, making us feel a certain cognitive dissonance about why we are here. However, from what I can see, our cypherpunk visionary builders and my DeFi brethren are hard at it working to keep crypto based.
When I remember my “why”, I find the conviction to fight on and for what I believe in.
i remember when ponzis had a nerd factor to them with interesting mechanics that got people hooked and interested in the project for months before people wisened up and realized it was a ponzi. now its like BUY MY PONZI and dies in 3 days
MEV being rebranded as a “good thing” by changing its name to REV is a masterclass in gaslighting. like imagine a stock exchange tryna claim that HFT trade firms sandwiching retail traders is the basis for its value proposition. Retardio.